Delaney Out!

[eamo1]

Theres a piece in todays Mail on Sunday in which John Delaney talks about what he wants to achieve before he steps down from his job.In his reply he says he wants 2 things mainly
1-The youth academy place at Abottstown (or is it Adamstown)
2-To bring the 2011 UEFA cup final to the new Landsdown Road.
There is NOTHING in his future plans for the domestic league in this country.We all suspected there wasnt and now we know for sure.This is a disgrace that he never mentioned anything about the Eircom league.DELANEY OUT NOW!!At least P1 had a vision,WHAT HAVE THE FAI???????

[gufcfan]

I wanted the c*** out ages ago.

My opinion hasn't changed an iota.

[jebus]

Those two things are more important to the majority of football supporters in Ireland than anything else to be fair

[stann]

P1 had no vision beyond their balance sheet.
Delaney actually is a fan of domestic football, believe it or not. He was at the Waterford - Wexford Youths game just gone, when he didn't have to be. 97% of this county's 'football fans' were not.
As jebus says, those things mentioned are more important to more people in the country than the eL is, but like him or loathe him there is no doubt he has done better by the league than a large number of his predecessors.

[bennocelt]

P1 had no vision beyond their balance sheet.
Delaney actually is a fan of domestic football, believe it or not. He was at the Waterford - Wexford Youths game just gone, when he didn't have to be. 97% of this county's 'football fans' were not.
As jebus says, those things mentioned are more important to more people in the country than the eL is, but like him or loathe him there is no doubt he has done better by the league than a large number of his predecessors.

thats rubbish

[stann]

No it's not.

[Mr A]

I have little doubt that John Delaney is committed to improving the league. I don't agree with everything being done (the ten team premier in particular is a stupid idea) but I do think things have been getting significantly better in the last couple of years.

On the points he mentioned- having the UEFA Cup at Lansdowne would obviously mean it's finished, and Irish Football will have a home for its National team again. And who would argue that youth development is not important?

[amaccann]

I think a Youth Academy is a good idea in the long run, vital for the future of the youth game, and I think Delaney's answers are more political than any attempt to p*ss of the league tbh.

Think about it for a second; setting up a Youth Academy & getting the final of a major European final, both of those are very achievable, immediate goals.

"Fixing" the league is a long-term, rolling-up-the-sleeves standard. Certainly nothing you can put a date on & Delaney is canny enough not to make any concrete promises. I believe them when they say they are working with the league, but I shouldn't take it as a slight.

[Magicme]

Also these academy players will benefit the league in the long run too. Most of them wont make it abroad and will play here so if they are getting a better level of coaching from early on it can only raise the game of the league.

Delaney has done his best by the league by getting shot of P1 to begin with and the 10 team premier means that hopefully with more teams doing better in Europe there will be less fixture congestion. Look at Pats this season, they are playing games on top of each other to fulfil Setanta, Europe and the league. With less games to play in the Premier this will make it easier for them to cope with this.

[bigmac]

There's nothing in there about him wanting any success for the international team - does that mean he doesn't care about them either? He's an administrator, these are the things that he can affect and do himself. Can we keep the Delaney out threads until they're actually needed please.

[Mr A]

Delaney has done his best by the league by getting shot of P1 to begin with and the 10 team premier means that hopefully with more teams doing better in Europe there will be less fixture congestion. Look at Pats this season, they are playing games on top of each other to fulfil Setanta, Europe and the league. With less games to play in the Premier this will make it easier for them to cope with this.

The 10 team premier means that premier sides will be playing 36 league games rather than 33, so fixture congestion will get worse. And what's more with playing the same teams so often it's bound to get boring.

And also- sod them. Too many games is a sign of success, I only wish Harps had that problem.

[SwanVsDalton]

There's nothing in there about him wanting any success for the international team - does that mean he doesn't care about them either? He's an administrator, these are the things that he can affect and do himself. Can we keep the Delaney out threads until they're actually needed please.

No way. Delaney out, he tried to sell the Eircom League to Peter Kenyon, sends promising young Irish talent to England on a dinghy and eats babies.

[jebus]

No way. Delaney out, he tried to sell the Eircom League to Peter Kenyon, sends promising young Irish talent to England on a dinghy and eats babies.

Source?

[SwanVsDalton]

Source?

Someone very high up at Merrion Sq - works on the 6th floor.

He's employed to lick the envelopes of Delaney's correspondance, privy to some hair-raising info. Also I hear our chief executive likes nothing more than to slip into a smoking jacket, pour a large snifter of Hennessy and read the finance reports of Eircom League sides, all the while laughing like a deranged mad-man.

[Dodge]

Look at Pats this season, they are playing games on top of each other to fulfil Setanta, Europe and the league. With less games to play in the Premier this will make it easier for them to cope with this.

Just needs better planning. We're not playing an obscene amount of games. The league just needs to plan the season better. Have more games early in the season (and get rid of that stoopid summer break) and there's no problem. Lose tomorrow and Friday and we'll be complaining about free weekends...

[Schumi]

Someone very high up at Merrion Sq - works on the 6th floor.

Who does he work for?

[SwanVsDalton]

Who does he work for?

The jesting will get far too elaborate if I answer that....

[SalvadorSanchez]

Let's look at Delaneys "achievements"
he appointed Stan and set the international team back about 5 years by doing so.
He's jacked up tickets from €38 to €50 "it's cause we don't get friendlies at Croker"... cue friendlies at Croker and the tickets are still €50.00 and up
Lansdowne may be too small... should have gone for 65,000 I think... (prob not his fault)

However we can't blame him for naming the youth academy and the UEFA cup final as the priorities, they're what most of the public want to hear,
as LOI fans we're a minority and the state of the league is the fault of the clubs (more active participation and decisive leadership from the FAI might help)

I'd like to see someone else in charge of the FAI, someone with profile and charisma, in a lot of peoples eyes Delaney is a lame duck after the Staunton fiasco.... it's time to do the same in Abbotstown....admit the mistake, make a change and move on....

[Mr A]

The Staunton thing was a disaster, but it's in the past now and we're moving forward. Ticket prices are high because they're paying massive rent on Croke Park, and anyway, so long as people are willing to pay it I don't see the problem.

Delaney may be a bit of a dictator at times- but at least there's a bit of leadership and direction there which was totally lacking in the past.

[BohDiddley]

... we can't blame him for naming the youth academy and the UEFA cup final as the priorities, they're what most of the public want to hear,

Agreed

... as LOI fans we're a minority and the state of the league is the fault of the clubs (more active participation and decisive leadership from the FAI might help)

Whatever about who is to blame historically, it is unthinkable that the head of a national association would not have as a priority the development of his country's domestic game.